prismatic-bell:

oraora-tarotaro:

I came out as trans to my uncle, and he wrote the loveliest response:

“Thank you for coming out to us! It is a joyful occasion to share being yourself with your family. The consciousness that resides in each of us is without gender, but gender and bodies are trappings that we put on, and it is important that you are comfortable in them. Much like a decent pair of pants.”

This is so beautiful and profound and then…..that last line.

Still beautiful, BUT OH THE LAUGHTER.

ascaloner:

micdotcom:

Male and female brains aren’t wired differently

New research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite size discrepancy, there’s no functional difference between men’s and women’s brains. “Male” brains and “female” brains simply don’t exist. In fact, there’s significant overlap.

This study had 1400 people in it… Remember that sample size matters. remember this when someone tries to rebuke this with a study that has 80 participants. Be as scientifically literate as possible so that we can debunk this nonsense one step at a time.

Here’s an article that talks about a paper which examined 6000 individuals and came up with similar findings.